Filament content threshold for activated sludge bulking: Artifact or reality?

Water Research

Volumn 41, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 4349-4356

  Schuler, Andrew J ^a   Jassby, David ^a  

^a University of New Mexico   (United States)

Author keywords

Activated sludge; Bulking; Filaments; Model; Settleability; SVI; Threshold

Indexed keywords

BACTERIA; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SECURITY OF DATA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

BULKING; SEMI-LOGARITHMIC SCALES; SLUDGE VOLUME INDEX; THRESHOLD EFFECT;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE PROCESS; BACTERIA; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SECURITY OF DATA; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

ACTIVATED SLUDGE; BACTERIUM; DATA SET; MODELING; SETTLING VELOCITY; THRESHOLD;

ANAEROBIC THRESHOLD; ARTICLE; ARTIFACT; BACTERIUM; CARBON SOURCE; LINEAR REGRESSION ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SLUDGE;

EID: 35349025379     PISSN: 00431354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.watres.2007.06.021     Document Type: Article

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